Discover the contentious discussions surrounding AI’s use in schools and how it can serve as a helpful tool for teachers — You’ll hear conflicting arguments about the use of AI these days. This is especially true when considering AI use in schools Students are using ChatGPT to write their essays! AI gives an unfair advantage! Some teachers can’t tell the difference between AI writing and student work!

How do we separate “auditory processing” from “receptive language” skills? How can we identify when weaknesses in attention impact young children in primary grades, thus laying a foundation of challenges in education down the line? When talking with primary grade teachers, there are many times when I am faced with…

What can we do about the anxiety of the coming school year? You know the road you are supposed to be traveling. Unless this is your first year, you know what’s going to happen. You will sign in and get your key. You will log back into the computer and…

“If solitude is the school of genius, as the historian Edward Gibbon put it, then the crowded, busy world is the purgatory of the idiot.”-Ryan Holiday Your email is pinging. The whole school forgot to not “reply all” on a district wide email celebrating a milestone for one of your…

When I was a kid, I dreamed of being a ball player. My parents house in Long Island, New York is kind of built into a hill. A ranch style house, the front of the house is level with the street while the back of the house has a porch…

August is one long Sunday night- Unknown I love memes. I love those “Some EEcards” pictures with the line drawing that looks old fashioned and some snarky comment that sticks out and makes you laugh, or think, or both. Whether you return to school…

Conflict. The word alone brings up so much emotion for me. -Times when I chose to engage in disagreement. Times when I walked away. -The inverse of both- times when I engaged and should’ve walked, and of course times I walked away and should’ve engaged. There are some people in…

What happens if you’re the new guy, and you don’t know what to do? — Photo by Michał Parzuchowski on Unsplash Social stories can be a helpful way to clarify social situations and interactions for children. While often targeted for children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), there are other types of children that can be helped by these stories. Children with challenges in social language…

What does it mean to come home? You see the idea put forth in popular films, television, and writing. Coming home. The attraction to a place and the people that pulls you back, no matter how far you go away from home. I recently traveled to the Adirondack mountains- it’s…